'Minouche et Rasinette en Jouetie' (Grand Coeur #25, 1946).
Henri Habsch was a Belgian painter and art teacher. As a comic artist, he worked for the short-lived Belgian comic weekly Grand Coeur, drawing the serial 'Minouche et Rasinette en Jouetie' (1946-1947).
Life
Henri Habsch was born in 1912 in Liège, and became known for his landscapes and cityscapes with Impressionist influences. He combined his career as a painter with his work as a teacher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liège. The artist died in 1985.
Grand Coeur
In 1946 and 1947, Henri Habsch was most likely also the cartoonist in Grand Coeur magazine, who first signed with "Hary" and then with "H. Habsch". A large part of the material in Grand Coeur was provided by magazine editor Charles Gilbert and students from his graphic arts atelier in Liège. Since Charles Gilbert was also teaching at the Academy in Liège, he also Henri Habsch were probably acquainted with each other.
'Minouche et Rasinette en Jouetie' (Grand Coeur #6, 1947).
Starting in Grand Coeur issue #26 of 1946, Habsch created the serial 'Minouche et Rasinette en Jouetie', starring two mice who risk their lives everday by hopping from human kitchen to human kitchen. When they see marionnettes of Tchantchès (a local folklore character from Liège) and the toy soldiers of Charlemagne preparing for their return to Jouétie (Toyland), they decide to join them. However, the General Mac de Dans refuses anyone without permission, the two mice have to try every trick they have up their sleeve. The story ran until the final issue of Grand Coeur on 27 February 1947, and has remained unfinished.
"View from Liège" (1949), painted by Henri Habch. The signature on the comic panel is almost identical.